Stolen valor is a big problem these days. In order to buy a current uniform for your branch should you have to show your CAC.

The problem with that is if you're a military kid like most of us serving have been, you grew up with your parents in the military and running around the neighborhood in a set of cammies playing army. What the law makers and lawyers should do is make an example out of one these scum bags and throw the full weight of the law at them . Then maybe they might get it through their heads that this illegal.

How many morons have you busted? What valor was stolen from you? Isn't imitation the highest form of flattery?

No, Sarn't. It is not. Falsely claiming to be something you are not is the highest form of disrespect. Personally, I have caught no one errantly wearing a uniform they have not earned the right to wear. However, that being said, I have seen it done, and it infuriates me to no end to see people wearing a uniform that my friends and Brothers have died for. As it should likewise infuriate you. Consider this, would you be okay with me dressing like you and claiming your family as my own? Claiming that your S/O was mine, simply because I looked like you? Well, the military is my family. Those fighting beside me are my brothers, and it is a family that I will defend and protect at all costs. And that protection is extended not only from national enemies both foreign and domestic, but from fraudulent dirtbags that want to claim to have earned the postion and profession that I have earned, without doing the job as well. Would you then say that people who burn our National Colors should likewise be left alone, simply because it is their right to do so? Or does it light a fire under your fourth point of contact as well? With all due respect, patriotism runs deeper in my blood than oxygen and I will not for a moment fail to display it and show my honor and vigilant defense to my nation and those who choose to serve.